I began making patterns many years ago and one of the things that fascinated me, and continues to fascinate me, is the effect that you get when you use a fast repeat at quite a small and compact scale.

This is a very old motif that, I suppose, resembles an Egyptian style seagoing vessel with its banks of oars but which was revived as a motif mid-century and found a use in wallpaper, but was used then at a much larger scale.

I have adapted the design and made it considerably simpler using it as a fast repeat and creating the image using a very small-scale. As a finished product, the eye is taken across and down (or up) by the successive rotations of the motif. I believe that this gives the pattern a very different and quite stylish look.

Again, I intended this pattern to be a wallcovering and I believe that that will be its final destination, although patterns like this also make very good fabric for fashions, particularly modern fashions since these type of repeats seem to be making something of a comeback.

If you wish, you can also see larger versions of this and, of course, my other designs and patterns for interiors on my Flickr page, a link to which is here.

This is a little different in that the wallpaper design uses a slightly different method of construction although the end result looks very straightforward.

This was created by using a separate background and the pattern is overlaid on top. The idea is to create a wall which looks simple and straightforward but which shows the background if you look a little closer. Looking at the image in its large form on Flickr you can see the effect of the background.

I think that the idea is mid century since I have seen wall coverings from that period which I think use this method while the colours, the few that are there, do reflect mid century values.

If you wish, you can also see larger versions of this and, of course, my other designs and patterns for interiors on my Flickr page, a link to which is here.

At the end of July I showed this design as a swatch and said that it was a suitable design to use for a wall coverings and, at last, I have been able to produce a 3D interior design using this wallpaper.

The design owes its inspiration to various mid-century patterns that appeared in the 1960s in the United Kingdom and the colouring is mostly mid-century with the exception of the yellow which is from my expanded palette.

The set is my small apartment set that I made several years ago now and which I still use because it seems to work so well. I thought that this design might be something of a squeeze to use in this space but, happily, I was wrong and, as soon as I put the paper on the wall, I was able to see that I was on the right lines. As a colour, blue tends to make everything look cold but I think, for this small apartment, it does make it look fresh and not too tiny. Sitting back and looking at the finished image I was quite pleased with the way that it had adapted to the size of the apartment.

If you wish, you can also see larger versions of this and, of course, my other designs and patterns for interiors on my Flickr page, a link to which is here.

This is a rather complicated design and is again, I am afraid, intended as a wallpaper pattern to be used as a feature or, perhaps, as there’s not too much contrast in the colour, as an all over design.

The pattern has a simple repeat but is intended to be used either way up which means that it will also make a useful fabric. I did experiment with different background colours and it may be that I will produce this design with a darker background with the intention of using it as, for example, a curtain fabric.

The inspiration for the design is, as you will realise, the 1960s in the UK while the colouring is taken both from the 1960s and from my expanded palette.

If you wish, you can also see larger versions of this and, of course, my other designs and patterns for interiors on my Flickr page, a link to which is here.

This was a difficult pattern to do in many ways, not because of any technical difficulty but because I was very concerned about the placement of the various elements within the design.

The actual pattern is a simple one of stylised, mid-century flowers placed on a background of leaves taken from the standard leaf patterns that appear to have been in existence for many, many years. What I wanted to do was to create clumps of colour and so I spent a lot of time working out the best placement of the three colours used for the flower motifs. The idea was to make the finished pattern, when used as a large area of fabric, show distinct areas of colour, some more prominent than others.

It is a little difficult to see whether I have succeeded from the pattern swatch and, once I and back to creating 3D scenes, I intend to use this as, for example, a curtain fabric where I hope my intentions will become clear.

I have explained about the motifs, the colours are mid-century type colours but taken from my expanded palate that I currently using.

If you wish, you can also see larger versions of this and, of course, my other designs and patterns for interiors on my Flickr page, a link to which is here.

When I create a pattern I often have a use in mind for it. I know that is not how most people work but for me, being used to creating 3D architectural visualisations, I tend to think in terms of use as well as design.

In this case, the design was always intended to be a wallcovering for the stairway that I made some time back. Stairways are difficult areas to design because they are not large open rectangular shapes. I have therefore chosen a simple repeat at a fairly small-scale in order to give the walls an overall look of colour and texture without making them too obvious or too distracting. Adding the lighter carpet to the room has also helped to make the stairway look bright and open as opposed to the dull and dismal look that so many stairways seem often to have.

The colours are from my expanded palette while the designs are simple mid-century stylised flower motifs.

If you wish, you can also see larger versions of this and, of course, my other designs and patterns for interiors on my Flickr page, a link to which is here.

As you will know, I like making designs intended for wall coverings since this was the way in which I first came into contact with pattern making and creating walls for interior spaces is still a large part of what I do.

This design takes for its inspiration the motifs produced in the early part of the mid-century in the UK along with the aesthetic behind the patterns produced during the early years of the 1900s in Europe. This was a time when ideas and fashions changed and a lot of very inventive work took place. The colours that I used have been chosen both from the palette used in the 1900s as well as colours from the mid-century choice.

I use Cinema 4D for producing interior architectural visualisations and I have been informed that the next version of this software will have a slightly different method for creating textures. This is a method that I particularly want to use and for this reason I am being careful to update my work ready to use the new software this next month.

If you wish, you can also see larger versions of this and, of course, my other designs and patterns for interiors on my Flickr page, a link to which is here.